Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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![📍Hollywood "We would just go in the front door of every one with a tape and say, 'Hi, we just got here from Florida, can we play you this tape?'" - Tom Petty on his first trip to L.A., going door-to-door on Sunset Boulevard looking for a record deal Just a few months later in September 1974, as newly arrived L.A. residents and Shelter Records signees, Mudcrutch opened for Dick Dale at Whisky A Go-Go and saw their name on the marquee over Sunset. [Archival Footage courtesy of Jim Lenahan, Photo by Red Slater]](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2095950021195653505/amplify_video_thumb/2095597625013903360/img/hy8XzieTROUJ0MXq.jpg)
📍Hollywood "We would just go in the front door of every one with a tape and say, 'Hi, we just got here from Florida, can we play you this tape?'" - Tom Petty on his first trip to L.A., going door-to-door on Sunset Boulevard looking for a record deal Just a few months later in September 1974, as newly arrived L.A. residents and Shelter Records signees, Mudcrutch opened for Dick Dale at Whisky A Go-Go and saw their name on the marquee over Sunset. [Archival Footage courtesy of Jim Lenahan, Photo by Red Slater]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers14,047 просмотров • 5 дней назад
![“The trip was really hard because we had Benmont’s mother’s station wagon. It did at tops about 50 miles an hour. All of us crammed in. They had the dogs and everything in the truck, and all our gear…Right at the city limits of Gainesville, the truck breaks down.” - Tom Petty on the band’s cross-country journey from Gainesville to Los Angeles in 1974 [Clip from ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’ documentary by Peter Bogdanovich (2007)]](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2091205899570577411/media/HQV0lttasAA-P6W.jpg)
“The trip was really hard because we had Benmont’s mother’s station wagon. It did at tops about 50 miles an hour. All of us crammed in. They had the dogs and everything in the truck, and all our gear…Right at the city limits of Gainesville, the truck breaks down.” - Tom Petty on the band’s cross-country journey from Gainesville to Los Angeles in 1974 [Clip from ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’ documentary by Peter Bogdanovich (2007)]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers16,411 просмотров • 18 дней назад
![📍Amarillo, TX “We got a little farther along, and the bearings go out on the station wagon. We had to stop and stay there for 2 or 3 days, while they ordered the parts to fix the station wagon. It was very bizarre.” - Benmont Tench [Archival footage courtesy of Jim Lenahan]](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2091600672156516800/media/HQbbsyEasAAOzq_.jpg)
📍Amarillo, TX “We got a little farther along, and the bearings go out on the station wagon. We had to stop and stay there for 2 or 3 days, while they ordered the parts to fix the station wagon. It was very bizarre.” - Benmont Tench [Archival footage courtesy of Jim Lenahan]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers14,968 просмотров • 17 дней назад
One of a kind. Forever missed. Forever loved by us all. October 20, 1950 - October 2, 2017
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers329,108 просмотров • 1 год назад
![On this day in 1974, Tom Petty and Mudcrutch left Gainesville, Florida for Los Angeles, California packed into a station wagon and a U-Haul in pursuit of a record deal and a dream. [Footage from the Petty Archives, backstage at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, 1977]](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2039492139038765113/amplify_video_thumb/2039491934251778048/img/AG64b6bruzx_KpCI.jpg)
On this day in 1974, Tom Petty and Mudcrutch left Gainesville, Florida for Los Angeles, California packed into a station wagon and a U-Haul in pursuit of a record deal and a dream. [Footage from the Petty Archives, backstage at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, 1977]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers91,331 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
![📍Interstate 10 Having made a name in their hometown of Gainesville, Florida, Mudcrutch set their sights west. April 1, 1974 - Tom, the band, and their families set out for Los Angeles, California in a caravan, including a Chrysler Town & Country for Benmont Tench and Tom Petty, a GMC Bobtail Truck for Jim Lenahan and Keith ‘Duke’ McAllister, a Volkswagen Bus for Danny Roberts and Mike Campbell // The Dirty Knobs, and a Chevy Vega for drummer Randall Marsh. [Archival footage courtesy of Jim Lenahan]](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2090563112894369867/media/HQMr_FIaoAAFEOS.jpg)
📍Interstate 10 Having made a name in their hometown of Gainesville, Florida, Mudcrutch set their sights west. April 1, 1974 - Tom, the band, and their families set out for Los Angeles, California in a caravan, including a Chrysler Town & Country for Benmont Tench and Tom Petty, a GMC Bobtail Truck for Jim Lenahan and Keith ‘Duke’ McAllister, a Volkswagen Bus for Danny Roberts and Mike Campbell // The Dirty Knobs, and a Chevy Vega for drummer Randall Marsh. [Archival footage courtesy of Jim Lenahan]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers14,610 просмотров • 19 дней назад
A deeper look at the popular clip of Tom talking about writing “The Waiting” from ‘Heartbreakers Beach Party’. The lost, irreverent rock doc and Cameron Crowe’s first film is now fully restored and debuting in theaters tomorrow, October 17, and on Tom’s birthday, October 20. Grab your tickets now at #HeartbreakersBeachParty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers213,050 просмотров • 1 год назад
![📍Dub’s Steer Room “We would do a lot of songs that were album songs that the club owner would go, ‘We want our Top 40.’ So we’d just play a Neil Young song and say it was a #1 hit or something. Or we’d do one of our own and say, ‘That was by Santana,’ or something. And they didn’t know the difference.” - Randall Marsh Owned by James ”Dub“ Thomas, Dub’s Steer Room in Gainesville became the spot where Mudcrutch performed regularly as a house band in the early 70s, though Dub limited the band to a hit covers-only set. [Clip from ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’ documentary by Peter Bogdanovich (2007)]](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2085863468775915631/media/HPJ5oF1bQAAOcVv.jpg)
📍Dub’s Steer Room “We would do a lot of songs that were album songs that the club owner would go, ‘We want our Top 40.’ So we’d just play a Neil Young song and say it was a #1 hit or something. Or we’d do one of our own and say, ‘That was by Santana,’ or something. And they didn’t know the difference.” - Randall Marsh Owned by James ”Dub“ Thomas, Dub’s Steer Room in Gainesville became the spot where Mudcrutch performed regularly as a house band in the early 70s, though Dub limited the band to a hit covers-only set. [Clip from ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’ documentary by Peter Bogdanovich (2007)]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers16,151 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Thank you Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder for keeping Tom’s spirit close by while you’re on the road.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers212,674 просмотров • 2 лет назад
![“It got too big. We had to quit because people were coming from other states. That was really in some ways some of the best times…We did everything ourselves. It was just a really good time.” - Randall Marsh on Mudcrutch’s Free Farm Festivals in Gainesville, Florida in the early 1970s. [Clip from ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’ documentary by Peter Bogdanovich (2007)]](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2085452769369190438/media/HPEEHN9bYAAldyb.jpg)
“It got too big. We had to quit because people were coming from other states. That was really in some ways some of the best times…We did everything ourselves. It was just a really good time.” - Randall Marsh on Mudcrutch’s Free Farm Festivals in Gainesville, Florida in the early 1970s. [Clip from ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’ documentary by Peter Bogdanovich (2007)]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers14,712 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Louisiana rain is falling just like tears. Rip Bonnie Tyler.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers22,888 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
Breakdown, it’s alright Behind the writing of “Breakdown” and how Mike Campbell // The Dirty Knobs’s iconic guitar lick inspired what came to be The Heartbreakers first track on the charts. Listen now to the remixed, extended version of “Breakdown” including an extended outro uncovered in the archives. Photo by Andee Nathanson, 1976 Footage from Santa Monica Civic Center, 1978
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers22,444 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
“We were very pleased with Denny Cordell, and so it was a good thing he signed us up really because we’d run out of money by the time we got to Tulsa. And he fronted us a little money, and we made it from Oklahoma to California.” - Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers14,942 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
“Where we grew up in Florida, ‘gator’ is the word.” - Tom Petty Excited to announce the Third Annual Tom Petty Day at FLORIDA on October 5 in The Swamp! A limited edition Tom Petty Day x Florida Collection is available for pre-order now in the Tom Petty Store. Proceeds from this collection will continue to benefit Tom’s hometown by flowing to two local organizations doing amazing work in Gainesville – Kids Count and Family Promise. Kids Count supports early education with an emphasis on literacy, and Family Promise provides housing and employment resources to families in the community. You can also support by making a donation directly – links in bio. (Footage from the Petty Archive, Cameron Crowe Interview, 1982)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers120,771 просмотров • 1 год назад